First edition of George Papworth’s exquisite book on picturesque cottage design. Papworth (1775-1847) was a leading architect, landscaper and interior designer of his day, who popularised the rustic cottages ornés through this work and in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c.

In this beautifully illustrated book he intended to demonstrate that even a modest cottage could be raised to a high aesthetic plane with the application of the principles of proportion and form. In an Australian context, Broadbent has traced the influence of Papworth’s designs to works on a grander scale: for a palatial house Macarthur was to have built at Pyrmont, as well as some of the features of the prestigious Newington at Silverwater.